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Monthly Archives: December 2009
Rudd leaves Denmark with a rotten deal, The Australian
To secure a Copenhagen Accord Kevin Rudd sold out Australia’s long-term negotiating interests and accepted the full cost of any future climate change agreement. During the Copenhagen conference the Prime Minister claimed “if every country pulls its weight we can … Continue reading
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The road after Copenhagen, The Mint (India)
The accord from the Copenhagen climate change conference wasn’t the result of a negotiation, but unidirectional concessions by developed countries to developing ones to support an agreement that obliged the latter to offer nothing in return. Consider the scorecard. Before … Continue reading
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A patent Copenhagen solution, The Mint (India)
India’s negotiating position on intellectual property (IP) at the Copenhagen climate change conference might be good politics, but it’s unlikely to help developing countries cut their emissions. Many key negotiating deadlocks at Copenhagen are focused on classic attitudinal divides between … Continue reading
Copenhagen summit and world trade, EGov Monitor
Any agreement from the Copenhagen climate change conference is likely to amplify the ‘green’ threat to wealth-creating free trade that is necessary to cut global carbon emissions say the authors from Institute of Public Affairs in Australia. Despite the media … Continue reading
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It’s the poor who’ll pay for Copenhagen’s circus
More people attend UN conferences than make a meaningful contribution, but even by UN standards delegates are describing the Copenhagen climate conference as a circus. Twenty-odd thousand green activists predominantly from developed countries are overwhelming the 8000 government officials and … Continue reading
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